Need another word that means the same as “confluence”? Find 8 synonyms and 30 related words for “confluence” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Confluence” are: concourse, conflux, merging, meeting, convergence, junction, joining, watersmeet
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “confluence” as a noun can have the following definitions:
| concourse | A wide hallway in a building where people can walk. A vast concourse of onlookers. |
| conflux | A flowing together. |
| convergence | The act of converging (coming closer. These bivalves have assumed similar characters by convergence. |
| joining | A set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets. The joining of hands around the table. |
| junction | The action or fact of joining or being joined. The junction of Queen s Road and Lancaster Avenue. |
| meeting | The social act of assembling for some common purpose. Next year the meeting will be in Chicago. |
| merging | The act of joining together as one. The merging of the two groups occurred quickly. |
| watersmeet | A place where two streams meet. |
| beck | A beckoning gesture. |
| brook | A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river. The Lake District boasts lovely lakes and babbling brooks. |
| carp | Raise trivial objections. |
| creek | Any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma. A sandy beach in a sheltered creek. |
| downstream | Situated in or towards the part of a sequence of genetic material where transcription takes place later than at a given point. Deforestation could have disastrous consequences for downstream regions. |
| eel | Used in names of unrelated fishes that resemble the true eels e g electric eel moray eel. |
| erosion | Erosion by chemical action. The problem of soil erosion. |
| estuary | The tidal mouth of a large river, where the tide meets the stream. |
| flow | The rate or speed at which something flows. The museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors. |
| fluvial | Of or found in a river. Fluvial deposits. |
| ford | A shallow area in a stream that can be forded. |
| inlet | An arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands. An air inlet. |
| irrigate | Supply with a constant flow or sprinkling of some liquid, for the purpose of cooling, cleansing, or disinfecting. Irrigate the wound. |
| irrigation | (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution. The river supplies water for irrigation of agricultural crops. |
| lamprey | Primitive eellike freshwater or anadromous cyclostome having round sucking mouth with a rasping tongue. |
| loch | An arm of the sea, especially when narrow or partially landlocked. Loch Lomond. |
| majority | More than half of the votes. In the majority of cases all will go smoothly. |
| raft | Make into a raft. Raft wood down a river. |
| river | Used in names of animals and plants living in or associated with rivers e g river dolphin. Great rivers of molten lava. |
| riverbank | The bank of a river. |
| rivulet | A very small river or stream. Sweat ran in rivulets down his back. |
| sedimentary | Produced by the action of water. |
| stream | Something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously. She was streaming with sweat. |
| subsidence | The gradual caving in or sinking of an area of land. The race was abandoned because of subsidence of the track. |
| terrapin | A type of prefabricated one-storey building for temporary use. |
| thames | The longest river in England; flows eastward through London to the North Sea. |
| tigris | An Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates River. |
| trout | Flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes. |
| upstream | In the opposite direction from that in which a stream or river flows; nearer to the source. Watch your footing and always face upstream. |
| vale | A valley (used in place names or as a poetic term. The Vale of Glamorgan. |
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